In the Bag?

Not the clubs you have but the other stuff you keep in there, especially anything odd.  

I guess firstly the basics like whether you have a jacket, spare towel, extra glove, plasters, how many tees etc.

But then the more odd ball things like are you a loo roll carrier or do you keep a luck charm hidden away?

I have the following

Plasters
Jacket
white wooden tees
balls
pitch mark repairer
a few foreign coin ball markers
range finder battery
sun lotion
Ibuprofen
paracetamol
water

Actually pretty boring but I like to tidy the contents of my bag out quite often so I don't end up finding a rotten sandwich a few weeks down the line or carry extra weight.


EDIT:  Can you also state what sort of bag you have (pencil, tour, full size, lightweight, stand etc) and what type of trolley you have if you use one.


I have a lightweight bag with only 3 pockets and don't often use a trolley unless it is a 36 hole day out.

Nix the Plasters, foreign coin ball markers, range finder battery (or range finder for that matter), sun tan lotion from Mac's list, and add a rule book and you have my bag.
Though I do have every colour tee under the sun, wouldn't like to confuse a lucky tee just because they all looked the same.
EDIT: Plus an umbrella. Though not exactly IN my bag.

Just had a splurge on the direct golf flash sales so have got a new bag. Was amazed at the amount of Poopie I was trundling round the course. Pretty much the same items plus waterproof trousers, cap and brolly.

Spare gloves
Wet gloves (as in gloves for use in the wet as opposed to gloves that are wet!)
Far too many tees
Far too many balls
2/3 groove cleaners (far too many)
2/3 pitch mark repairers (far too many)
Range finder + GPS (had one, won other)
Drink
Waterproofs
Jumper
Rule book
Card holder
Brolly
Change accumulated from one clear out to the next
Spare towel
Some description of food
Car keys
Wallet
Shergar
Lord Lucan
Atlantis

Roller

I used to have a rule book but lost it and now just have the R and A app. Never actually had to use the app yet so would like to hear if anyone can compare the book vs the app?



Added a little edit to the OP, just thought it would be good to know what sort of bag and trolley people use.

Sun Mountain carry bag.
Trolleys and carts are for wussies, and Lord Lucan.

Ibuprofen for the fifth hole when hip and feet hurt.
4 cans of Stella to drink whilst waiting for everyone else to complete after I retire hurt on the 8th.

dyna

Good point, just remembered I usually have some Ibuprofen and paracetamol in the bag.

Motocaddy trolley bag and trolley. Bag free with trolly so opted for that over the equivalent Powakaddy.

Kwin - LL is glad I have a trolley, saves his legs apparently, although Shergar could give him a ride I guess, lazy sod.

Also have small Cleveland carry bag (but not pencil) for the odd time I get out to have a few holes. In that, couple of balls, tees and a glove.

I thought LL was a swimmer?
Shergar is probably an ingredient of "some description of food".

Deer antler spray.

Oh deer [sic]

This is all a bit boring so far. I was hoping people would have all sorts of odd ball items in their bags.

Okay, I'll bite. I have a redneck cart cover. For monetary reasons this year the cart fleet does not have the flip down cover that goes over the top of the bag to keep your clubs dry. To counteract this a couple of us have the redneck cart cover which is made up of a huge trash can / dustbin bag sliced open and three spring clamps to hold it to the top of the cart. It ain't pretty but it's effective.

Think that's the strangest thing I have in the bag.

Mac - strange that you carry a ranger finder battery but no range finder. Do you use it as a ball marker?

I carry insect repellant for summer evening rounds - my course has lakes and a stream.

Otherwise I have all the usual boring stuff. I like to carry, but I also like lots of pockets to organise the bits and pieces, so there aren't many bags designed for me. I really want a waterproof bag but they have hardly any pockets.

I once found a tee with "Ray's Tee" written on it - I've been carrying it in my bag for at least a decade, saving it for that special occasion, like when I need a straight drive to par the 18th to win the Open.

Anyone use poker chip style ball markers? Why?

Ray, the rangefinder is technically on a pouch hanging on the towel ring and not in the bag.


You would have to be a bit of ned to us poker chips as markers.


The ray tee is the sort of stuff I was hoping to hear about.

Quite. Just don't understand why someone would use the poker chip markers - but I increasingly see them on sale in pro shops.

Ray, using ball markers is a bit of golf monthly type guy move.

haha! I remember golf monthly giving away a poker chip marker as a free gift not too long ago...

I use a poker chip. No real reason, I just do. In (very slight and irrelevant) mitigation it is actually a poker chip from the Wynn Las Vegas casino.

I guess I'm a bit of a ned.

NOt sure I understand the argument against Poker Chips. I presume people object to the size?

If you have to move a poker chip, you'll most likely have to move a 2p piece, 10p piece, Danish 5 Kr or whatever you use, so who cares if you use a poker plate or a Nazi coin? What difference does it make to anyone?

I won a poker chip with the club name on it for a 2 on pro's day and do use that. I find it much easier to get out of my pocket - little markers tend to get lost in the tangle of string attached to the end of my tee.

Super

"If you have to move a poker chip, you'll most likely have to move a 2p piece, 10p piece, Danish 5 Kr or whatever you use"

White tracksuit bottoms are just as practical as any other trouser but wearing them still makes you a ned.

Just something uncouth about the use of a poker chip as a ball marker.

I'm not a poker chip user Mac, but I don't really see how you could describe it in line in line with tracksuit bottoms.
Surely a 2p or 10p makes you just as much, if not more of a pikey?

You're saying I've got to change my trousers now?

Super

More importantly what is in your bag?



Monty

Maybe just start with untucking them from your socks.

Nothing unusual in my bag Mac, same as yours probably, except I have car keys and not a bus pass

Probably? Why not have a think and post what you carry and we will see if we do have the same stuff in the bag.

Mac: In addition to the normal which are required for golf I have:

Groovefix Ball Line Marker.
Assorted Sharpies.
SEGG Water bottle.
Laser batteries.
Rain glove.
Mitts in winter
Wooly hat for winter
One of those things for getting mud out of your grooves.

Thanks super. Just googled the SEGG bottle and it looks pretty cool.  Might have to get one of those (in fact I will get this one just to unnerve playing partners http://www.savvysassymoms.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/SIGG-Hello-Kitty-Water-Bottles-Halloween1.png ).


"One of those things for getting mud out of your grooves."

You mean one of those brush things.  I have had a few of them and it they pretty handy but I lost about 4 and then gave up getting any more.

My rain glove is an old glove, which I actually forget in my list, that I use in the wet so that my current glove doesn't get damaged.

They're handy bottles because you don't end up with tons of useless plastic hanging around and obviously means you don't have to keep buying water.
Probably paid for itself many times over by now.

Think theres an article somewhere where they tested some dirty irons vs clean ones. Made quite a difference I seem to remember - well worth keeping clean

The keeping grooves clean, this subject upsets me. Those brush things seem to very quickly become a bit off a mess with the bristles pointing all over the place, and tees quickly become too blunt for the job.
Is there anything else that people use for groove cleaning? A Brillo pad maybe

Mustputt, mid round I use a towel and a tee. Top tip: put a corner of your towel under a tap on the first tee and cleaning balls and clubs is much easier.

But try and clean my clubs once or twice a week inbetween play. That way the grooves tend not to get clogged up.

Broken tees anyone?

You clean your clubs once or twice a week Mac? I'm impressed. I actually quite enjoy cleaning my clubs but never have time. They get cleaned 3 times a year at best. Is everyone else cleaning their clubs that often too?

In my carry bag or attached to it are;

Range finder
Towel
Cap
Sun cream or wooly hat
Brolly
Waterproof jacket
Expandable ball retriever
GPS
Keys
Phone
Tees
Spare pencil, sharpener, ball marker pitch repairer
Balls
Rain glove
Laser battery
Rule book
Hayfever tablets
Plasters
Pain killers
Drink bottle

Always have in my pocket;

Glove
Long tee
Short tee
Pitch repairer
Ball marker
Groove brush

Keep clubs clean as I play with spit,  brush and towel

super_realist wrote:NOt sure I understand the argument against Poker Chips. I presume people object to the size?

If you have to move a poker chip, you'll most likely have to move a 2p piece, 10p piece, Danish 5 Kr or whatever you use, so who cares if you use a poker plate or a Nazi coin? What difference does it make to anyone?

A poker chip is more or less the same size as a ball. You might as well just leave the ball on the green.

MustPuttBetter wrote:You clean your clubs once or twice a week Mac? I'm impressed. I actually quite enjoy cleaning my clubs but never have time. They get cleaned 3 times a year at best. Is everyone else cleaning their clubs that often too?

3 times a year, so you clean your clubs about 3 times more per year than I do.

raycastleunited wrote:

super_realist wrote:NOt sure I understand the argument against Poker Chips. I presume people object to the size?

If you have to move a poker chip, you'll most likely have to move a 2p piece, 10p piece, Danish 5 Kr or whatever you use, so who cares if you use a poker plate or a Nazi coin? What difference does it make to anyone?

A poker chip is more or less the same size as a ball. You might as well just leave the ball on the green.

Theres no penalty for hitting a great big feckin marker...

MontysMerkin wrote:

raycastleunited wrote:

super_realist wrote:NOt sure I understand the argument against Poker Chips. I presume people object to the size?

If you have to move a poker chip, you'll most likely have to move a 2p piece, 10p piece, Danish 5 Kr or whatever you use, so who cares if you use a poker plate or a Nazi coin? What difference does it make to anyone?

A poker chip is more or less the same size as a ball. You might as well just leave the ball on the green.

Theres no penalty for hitting a great big feckin marker...

Unless he's the PGA one assigned to write down your scores when you play on your own!

One of the guys I play with has one of those extendable poles with a cup on the end to retrieve balls out of water.
He carries it around but we all use it.

Mines away being regripped.

Carrying a ball retriever is up there with keping your tees tied together with a bit of string, or takng a full bag and trolley to the local pitch and putt